DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Now, this morning, we would bring before you all your saints, and ask you to attend to their trials and troubles. Some we know here, are afflicted in person; others are afflicted in their dear friends; some are afflicted in their temporal estate, and are brought into sore distress. Lord, we do not know the trials of all your people, but you do; for you are the Head, and the pains of all the members are centered in you. Help all your people even to the end.
Now, we ask for you to grant us the blessing of rest, which we have already sought; and let it come upon all the churches of our beloved country. May the Lord revive true and undefiled religion here.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“So she named the Lord who spoke to her: ‘You are El-roi’ for she said, ‘In this place, have I actually seen the one who sees me?’” (Genesis 16:13)
There is a God. God is not an impalpable somebody up there who has nothing to do with me, but there is God here, here, and he sees me. God deals with me—not far away, asleep, or blind—but God sees me.
Oh, it is a glorious thing when that conviction arises in the soul: “I am not alone, I am not friendless, after all. There is a God and a God who sees me and who takes such notice that he speaks to me.”
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